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JANISARY MUSIC Janisary Music is a project which brings one time Golden Calf D Methlie together with Icewater Scandal guitar maven Sean Maffucci to create a musical environment all their own. The project began with a task; create a score for the experimental film No Exit by Keith Ehlich. D Methlie had been playing around the NYC experimental scene under the moniker Rats Live On after the implosion of the NYC pysch/experimental group the Golden Calves while Sean Maffucci had been filling his time blurring the line between rock and noise as part of NYC’s AM Radio [Now called Icewater Scandal]. A chance meeting brought the two together and they began working on the film’s score. After a string of performances at various screenings of the film and a few performances at some NYC clubs, the two began working on a record. The resulting recordings are very much a species all their own; created from the spliced DNA of many a musical genres and styles. The sound is purely democratic; cellos meshing with found percussion, powerbook manipulations fed into a four track and then cut up beyond any recognition, a droning violin set against a thrashing prepared guitar. The real accomplishment of these recordings extends well beyond their method; while created with a methodically abstract aesthetic, the pieces themselves almost exist in a ghastly image of pop music, slowly building elusive hooks out of sleepy drones to pull in the listener. |
Catalog Number: SR003 RELEASED IN AN EDITION OF LP ISSUED BY ECSTATIC PEACE OUT OF PRINT |